Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Leaf cutter ant (Atta) carrying a leaf along a branch, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Leaf cutter ant (Atta) carrying a leaf along a branch, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Brood chambers inside a Termite (Isoptera) nest with workers tending eggs, Napo Province in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Slow motion. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a queen termite (Isoptera) in chamber, with workers gathering liquid containing pheromones exuded from the queen's rear end, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Queen Termite (Isoptera) tended by workers in nest chamber, Napo Province, Ecuadorian Amazon. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Close-up of Agua rica leaf frog (Phyllomedusa ecuatoriana) eggs after 18 days development, the tadpoles are fully developed and ready to hatch, Ecuador. Endangered. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Close-up of Agua rica leaf frog (Phyllomedusa ecuatoriana) eggs after 11 days development, showing beating heart and blood flowing over gills, Ecuador. Endangered. (non-ex)

Alex Mustard / Portrait of a male short snouted seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus) in sea oak seaweed (Halidrys siliquosa). Devon, England, United Kingdom. British Isles. English Channel. North East Atlantic Ocean.

Nick Upton / Close-up of a Meadow brown butterfly (Maniola jurtina) nectaring on a Greater knapweed flower (Centaurea scabiosa) in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, England, UK, June.

Nick Upton / Male Thick-legged flower beetle (Oedemera nobilis), with a Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) pollinium attached to its head, nectaring on Common hogweed flowers (Heracleum sphondylium), Wiltsh...

Morley Read / Leaf frog (Agalychnis hulli) blinking its eyes and turning around, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Developing embryo of the Ecuadorian monkey frog (Phyllomedusa ecuatoriana), showing heart beating and blood flowing, Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador, (non-ex)